• Appiko movement
  Appiko movement
  ABOUT APPIKO MOVEMENTThe Appiko movement was a revolutionary movement based on environmental conservation in India.The Chipko movement in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas inspired the villagers of the district of Karnataka province in southern India to launch a similar movement to save their forests...
  
  
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
  Narmada Bachao Andolan
  Narmada Bachao Andolan is social movement consisting of tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India....
  
  
• Chipko movement
  Chipko movement
  The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a social-ecological movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled...
  
  
• Jhola Aandolan (Fighting polythene)
• Save Kudremukh
  Kudremukh
  Kudremukh also spelled Kuduremukha is a mountain range in Chikkamagaluru district, in Karnataka, India. It is also the name of a small hill station town situated near the mountain, about 48 kilometers from Karkala and about 20 kilometers from Kalasa...
  
  
• Lok Satta Movement
  Lok Satta Movement
  Lok Satta is a non-partisan movement for democratic reforms in the country of India, led by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, a former I. A. S. officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh, India. The movement was started in 1996 with the founding of Lok Satta, a non-governmental organization...
  
  
• Save Silent Valley
  Save Silent Valley
  Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India. It was started in 1973 to save the Silent Valley Reserve Forest in from being flooded by a hydroelectric project. The valley was declared as...
  
  
• Swadhyay Movement
  Swadhyay Movement
  Swadhyay, a Sanskrit word, means self-study, but it is more than what it connotes. Lord Krishna mentioned Swadhyay as one of the divine attributes one should have it and one of the four Yagna . Also, it is an austerity of speech...
  
  
• Swatantra Sharad Joshi http://www.angelfire.com/in/swatantra/
• Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha
  Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha
  Karnataka Rajya Rayot Sangha, also known as KRRS or the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, is a farmer's movement. M. D. Nanjundaswamy was the president of the organisation. It came to lime light for its opposition to KFC shops in Bangalore in the 1990s. They are in the forefront of fighting...
  
  http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/14/stories/2007021414890300.htm

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• Social Movements in South Asia: Selected Internet Resources